CONVERSATION WITH MAX: THE MIRROR

PROFILE of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. Visit to his home in Rapallo. Sir Max talked about Virginia Woolf's diary; about the things about her that he found distasteful. He always felt in Virginia an absence of vitality. And, indeed, her end was the abdication of vitality. When you think of Benjamin Haydon! He was a painter, & full of work and projects, and yet at the end of each day he had the vitality to sit down and write those immense diaries, which are so fascinating to read." Mr. Behrman might have suggested to Sir Max that it was odd to pose Haydon's vitality against Virginia Woolf's anemia, since Haydon had committed suicide also.

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